By LAWRENCE FRENCH THE DEEP (DEAD RECKONING) Written and Directed by Orson Welles. Based in the novel Dead Calm by Charles Williams. Cinematography by Willy Kurant and Ivica Rajkolvic (in Color). Music by Francois Rabath. Cast: Lawrence Harvey (Hughie Warriner); Jeanne Moreau (Ruth Warriner); Orson Welles (Russ Brewer); Oja Kodar (Rae Ingram); Michael Bryant (John […]
A full year before the premiere of CITIZEN KANE, Orson Welles had already made a big impact in Hollywood, as can be attested by this Pat Hobby story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published in the May, 1940 issue of Esquire, the year Fitzgerald died. ************************* PAT HOBBY AND ORSON WELLES By F. Scott Fitzgerald __________________________________ […]
Many thanks to Wellesnet correspondent Leslie Weisman for sending along this comprehensive report on the Yale University ORSON WELLES Symposium, that occurred in New Haven, Conn. a few weeks ago. ******************* THE TRANSNATIONAL ORSON WELLES _____________ By LESLIE WEISMAN The weekend of November 30 to December 2 was a rare opportunity for Wellesians who were able […]
As any good director working in movies will freely admit, they have been influenced by the cinema of Orson Welles in making their own films. And just having seen Alfonso Cuaron’s masterful new movie “Children of Men” (which will be opening from Universal Pictures on Dec 25th), I want to give everyone a very good […]
Here is Peter Bogdanovich’s reply to the interview with Charles Higham, below, that appeared in The New York Times on September 17, 1970. Mr. Higham’s interview, it should be noted, was conducted with himself. In other words, he wrote both the questions and the answers, which is of course, why it is now so apparent […]
Here’s an interview with that self-proclaimed “scholarly author,” poet and noted authority on the work of Orson Welles, Mr. Charles Higham. It was published in The New York Times on September 19, 1970 as a rebuttal to Peter Bogdanovich’s own article in The Times, “Is It True What They Say about Orson?” (see Wellesnet November […]
Note: This was originally published on the site in December 2004, but in part of an ongoing effort to streamline the site, it is being republished through the News page in order to make it easier to find. Other “classic” Wellesnet items will be posted this way in the coming days and weeks. -Jeff W […]
Here is Orson Welles beautifully written tribute to one of his own favorite directors: Jean Renoir. It was written for The Los Angeles Times after Jean Renoir died in Feb, 1979. Re-reading this piece is quite interesting, since Welles is ostensibly talking about Jean Renoir’s own career difficulties, but in retrospect, Welles seems to be […]
Joseph McBride’s new book on Orson Welles features two chapters on the saga of the making, and unmaking of THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND. It’s the most comprehensive coverage of this unfinished Welles masterpiece that has yet been seen. In the book Mr. McBride also goes into some detail about the early problems Welles […]
Interview with JACK ARNOLD ďż˝ on DIRECTING ORSON WELLES in MAN IN THE SHADOW (1957)�� ďż˝ By Lawrence French ďż˝ ďż˝ *******************�� ďż˝ The following are excerpts from an interview I conducted with director Jack Arnold, which took place in 1981 when Arnold had been invited by Mark Fishkin, the director of The Mill Valley […]
When talking with Roger Corman about his Edgar Allan Poe movies, I took the opportunity to ask him about his dinner meeting with Orson Welles, which took place in the mid-seventies when Corman and Peter Bogdanovich were preparing St. Jack, which Welles was originally supposed to direct. Unfortunately, I forgot to ask Corman about Welles […]
Orson Welles received the AFI’s lifetime achievement award on February 9, 1975, and without a doubt gave the best acceptance speech that any recepient of that august award has ever delivered. The show was taped for broadcast on CBS and was available on videotape, but since it has long been out of print, here is […]
Ages ago (okay, early last year) I picked up a bunch of film magazines that were being thrown out. I had intended to somehow use them on the site, but put them in a box and consequently forgot about them. I stumbled over them again recently, and seeing as how I hadn’t posted in a […]
I’ve only recently seen over on the Criterion Forum forum that the excellent UK label Masters of Cinema will be releasing F for Fake, and that this release will include an interview with critic/Welles scholar Jonathan Rosenbaum; no date was given. Considering their usual high standard of work, this should be a very good release. […]
